Letters | Food stamps, zoning, Zimmerman and Yom Kippur

Fighting for another cause

The Sunday editorial attacking the Republicans for ending food stamps ignores the valiant fight against obesity that the Republicans began under President Ronald Reagan and continued through the Bush years and yet today. The Republicans remember how successful Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were in creating the Great Depression and how it wiped out obesity in the market economies of the world.

They know that cutting taxes for the super-rich and subsidizing them will not increase obesity because those funds go into off-shore banks. Tax cuts for lower income families are quickly spent and if you increase the food supply they will get obese. High unemployment, reducing unemployment benefits, cutting social security and ending food stamps will keep the lower income population from over eating and obesity. Bless the Republicans for fighting obesity in the poor.

JASON J. KESLER

Bloomfield, Ky 40008 -

Zoning issues

Look out for the Louisville Metro Planning Commission! They have allowed, with the Lyndon City Council's approval, the expansion of Oxmoor Toyota's C-2 intense commercial zoning into a single family residential neighborhood. They ignored the wisdom of the zoning commissioners of four years ago, who denied this expansion, because of the necessity of "space." They ordered the R5-A zoning to remain, in order to provide a "buffer" between the C-2 intense zoning of the car lot, and the many single family homes. Oxmoor Toyota said that they needed, and now have been given, 250 more spaces for "inventory and storage." Is there any car on that crowded sales lot that is not "inventory and storage" until it is sold?

The commissioners of four years ago cared about healthy neighborhoods, and protected them. The decision makers of today, having been taken for a ride, might have trouble sleeping at night, when they think about what they have done. A car lot in your backyard, anyone?

DOT GREENFIELD

Louisville 40222 -

Constructive conversation

This is a response to the letter July 25 titled "News Vacuum." The writer says the four-page commentary on the Martin-Zimmerman case left out that Zimmerman's head was repeatedly beat on the concrete. For one thing, we only have Zimmerman's word for that. He had two small cuts on his head.

If his head was repeatedly beaten on the concrete (Zimmerman says at least 50 times) he would have had a concussion, would have needed medical attention immediately and would not have been able to walk away intact.

We have only Zimmerman's word about what happened. We do know that he had a bullet in the chamber of his gun ready to fire once he got out of his van. We know that he followed Trayvon Martin even after being told not to. We know that Trayvon was not armed and is dead. We know that the police did a very sloppy job of investigating what happened and took Zimmerman's word as gospel.

I believe that the letter writer has a vacuum in his heart and mind if he cannot see that something is terribly wrong that an unarmed teenager could be walking home and end up dead by a want-to-be cop.

We have the Limbaughs, Hannitys and O'Reillys and their ilk spouting hate on their shows, but worst of all is that we have people in this country who listen to them and believe it. As long as this occurs there will never be any constructive conversation on race in this country.

CHERYL ALLISON CAMPBELL

Louisville 40218 -

Religious zeal

Honi Goldman recently complained about the upcoming UK-U of L football game being played on Yom Kippur. While I appreciate her religious zeal, I would refer her to Sandy Koufax. In October 1965, Koufax, a Jew, refused to pitch the opening game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.

If Yom Kippur is such a holy day, then nothing else matters. What better way to show God (and everyone else) how faithful you are. By the way, the Dodgers won the World Series that year and Koufax was the MVP.

MIKE DIXON

Louisville 40245 -

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Letters | Food stamps, zoning, Zimmerman and Yom Kippur

The Sunday editorial attacking the Republicans for ending food stamps ignores the valiant fight against obesity that the Republicans began under President Ronald Reagan and continued through the Bush